Talk:Christianity and Ancient Greek philosophy

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I have a couple of general suggestions to make:

• this article should be renamed "Hellenic philosophy and Christianity". That would broaden its scope to also include the influence of Christianity on Hellenic philosophy; it makes sense to discuss both directions of influence within the same article.
• include the influence of Hellenic philosophy on various heresies which the Church rejected. In rejecting some heresies, the Church was also rejecting more extreme influences of platonism.

And of course Judaism itself was already Hellenized when Jesus was born. In the first century, the Jewish scriptures were much more often read in Greek rather than Hebrew both in the Diaspora and in Palestine itself. This article makes it sound like Hellenic influence didn't really start until the fourth century when Christianity was legalized. Wesley 03:59, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

i agree with the title change -- beyond that, sounds like you have some expertise i lack -- would you be willing to expand the article? Ungtss 05:05, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)